UK government contacts thousands of private rental properties to house tens of thousands of alleged asylum seekers
Aug 22, 2025 9:00 am
By Christine Douglass-Williams
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I stated here at Jihad Watch a day before the news broke of the Starmer government’s panic over where to place migrants: Epping Forest District Council officials asked a judge to temporarily block migrants from being accommodated at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, because of “unprecedented levels of protest and disruption.” They should have done it out of a sense of duty, instead of in response to an escalation of outrage. Thousands were protesting, some aggressively, while Essex police eventually admitted to escorting pro-migrant protesters to the asylum hotel. The court victory is a significant development in recognizing that British taxpayers have taken enough abuse from their leaders. Their pushback has finally yielded a response.
The immediate question was what now? Where would the socialist Starmer government put all these illegal migrants? The Starmer government has apparently decided to solve its dilemma by dumping on British citizens even more than before, and flooding neighborhoods with mostly Muslim illegal migrants. As Robert Spencer often asks, “What could possibly go wrong?”
This latest Starmer government stunt is yet another indication of why its popularity has bottomed out.
“UK Gov’t Panic: Contacts Private Residencies to House Hotel Migrants Amid Legal Challenges,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, August 21, 2025:
In an act of apparent desperation, Britain’s left-wing government has begun contacting thousands of private rental properties to potentially house tens of thousands of supposed asylum seekers after a legal challenge threatens to quash the use of hotels to house mostly young male illegals in local communities.
The UK’s asylum accommodation programme was thrown into chaos this week, as the High Court ruled in favour of the Epping Forest district council to shut down the controversial Bell Hotel, which sparked a wave of anti-mass migration protests after one of its residents, an illegal alien from Ethiopia, allegedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in Essex….
Although the government gave the impression of being flustered about its next steps, The Telegraph reported on Wednesday evening that the Home Office had already begun this month contacting property specialists to commandeer at least 5,000 residential units to house some 20,000 hotel migrants. According to the paper, the government has been primarily targeting two-bedroom houses and flats to house, on average, four migrants each….
In June, it was reported that multinational contracting firm Serco — one of the principal agents behind the hotel migrant scheme — had been contacting private landlords to inquire about renting their properties to house migrants, offering up to five years guaranteed rent, utilities, council tax and repairs, all at taxpayer expense….
“Court ruling complicates UK government’s efforts to house asylum-seekers,” by Pan Pylas and Brian Melley,? Associated Press, August 21, 2025:
LONDON — The dilemma of how to house asylum-seekers in Britain got more challenging for the government after a landmark court ruling this week motivated opponents to fight hotels used as accommodation….
Home Office minister Dan Jarvis said the government is looking for contingency options….
The easiest option would most likely house asylum-seekers in the private sector, but that risks compounding problems in the rental market in a country where housebuilding has been low for years.
“Labour membership collapses under Keir Starmer as hundreds of thousands desert party,” by George Bunn, GB News, August 21, 2025:
Labour Party membership has plummeted as almost 200,000 people have deserted Sir Keir Starmer’s party.
Figures published on Thursday showed the party had lost another 37,215 members over the course of 2024, around 10 per cent of its total membership at the start of the year.
By the end of 2024, Labour’s membership stood at 333,235.
This is significantly down on its recent peak of 532,046 at the end of 2019, just after the party lost the General Election under former leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Labour however remains the biggest party by pure membership numbers, despite surges in support for newer parties such as Reform UK.
While Nigel Farage’s party does not publish a membership figure in its own accounts, a ticker on Reform’s website said it had 234,499 members, at time of writing.
Meanwhile, over 650,000 people have signed up to potentially become members of Your Party, which Mr Corbyn co-founded with Coventry South MP, Zarah Sultana…. |
